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Commentary
How private sector can lead conservation charge in Africa
By Chris Diaz, The Standard It’s no doubt Africa is home to some of the world's most endangered species of animals. To protect these populations from further decline, there is need to empower local communities through conservation-friendly development and work with agencies and organizations to protect Africa’s natural resources. Whether it is humans poaching wildlife or wildlife attacking people and their livestock, the problem cuts both ways. The needs of people and wildlife are slowly, showing greater success through electrical fence controls, and needs more education, training,...
Unsung hero — forest ranger ends elephant poaching and educates communities on harmonious wildlife coexistence
By Onke Ngcuka - Daily Maverick Emmanuel Olabode, a ranger in the tropical forests of Nigeria’s Omo Forest Reserve, has been protecting elephants and other wildlife for almost a decade. His wins include ending elephant poaching in the region amid a dwindling population across the country. He has also been able to reeducate former poachers and hunters towards becoming rangers. In the southwestern parts of the Nigerian state of Ogun rests the tropical Omo Forest Reserve, home to more than 200 tree types and more than 100 species of birds and mammals. Yet, the reserve is threatened by...
News
Supreme Court Rejects Plea for Importing African Elephants
By Asma Sajid, ProPakistani The Supreme Court denied a petition seeking permission to import African elephants for a zoological garden in Peshawar on Monday. Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Raja...
Chad: A sudden resumption of elephant poaching worries civil society
By Boris Ngounou, Afrik 21 At least five elephants were shot and stripped of their tusks in early April 2023 in southern Chad. Shocked by this wildlife crime, the organisation SOS Elephants of Chad...
Climate change threatens Namibia’s desert elephants with extinction
By Mthulisi Sibanda, CAJ News Africa The desert-adapted elephants of Namibia are the epitome of survival. They exist in the world’s oldest desert, which is one of the driest places on the planet....
Press releases
Press Release: Undercover investigation reveals elephant ivory being sold across Florida, and sellers who do not have papers to prove legality
By Humane Society of the United States WASHINGTON—Today the Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society International released a disturbing undercover investigation revealing the potentially deceptive sale of products made from elephant ivory by sellers at 20 stores in...
Studies
A Phased Approach to Increase Human Tolerance in Elephant Corridors to Link Protected Areas in Southern Mozambique
By Michelle D. Henley, Robin M. Cook, Anka Bedetti, Jessica Wilmot, Adine...
The value of elephants: A pluralist approach
By Antoinette van de...
Save Africa’s forest elephants if you want the Congo rainforest to continue capturing carbon: Study
By Rajat Ghai - Down to Earth World’s second-biggest rainforest could lose 6-9...
Reports
Landscape of fear: crime, corruption and murder in greater Kruger
By Julian Rademeyer - Enact he national park’s most-pressing challenge is no longer preventing rhino poaching but eradicating internal corruption. For more than a decade, Kruger National Park has faced a relentless onslaught of rhino poaching. But today its greatest threat is internal corruption,...
About
The Journal of African Elephants was created by a group of concerned journalists, biologists and conservationists, who, after years of tracking and documenting the catastrophic decline of Africa’s elephant populations, have recognised the urgent need for a dedicated English and French news and commentary space to enhance and increase global awareness of the plight of Africa’s savanna and forest elephants. Our Commentary service, in particular, are writers that focus on the need to provide awareness of Africa’s elephants and affected surrounding human communities from a distinctly African perspective that, for the most part, is lacking in the dominance of Western media.